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J. INGLIJS.

TAP VALVE E0E EEEE OR OTHER VESSELS. No. 366,005. Patented July 5, 1887.

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JOHN INGLIS, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,005, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed November 23, 1886. Serial No. 219,601. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN INo-LIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, Passaic county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tap- Valves for Beer or other Barrels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in tap-valves for beer or other barrels.

Hitherto it has been customary to construct tap-valves with a shouldered valve-box, the shoulder of the same forming the seat for the valve, and the valve itself is held to its seat against the shoulder by means of a spiral spring that is interposed between the end of the valve-box and the valve. The valve in this case is opened by means of a faucet having afaucet-cock, screw-thread, &c., for opening the valve by compressing the spring, and the contents of the barrel are drawn off or retained by means of the faucet-cock. This construction is objectionable, for the reason that springs when they remain in a compressed state, as they-frequently do for a considerable time, lose their elastic force and fail to hold the valve hard to its seat, causing leakage and inconvenience. The faucet employed to open the valve requires several revolutions in the operation, after which the faucet-cock is brought into requisition to discharge the fluid or to retain the same, and the whole operation is found to be tedious.

The object of my present invention is to provide a tap-valve for beer and other barrels, which shall possess the advantages of the valve, spring, and faucet, and which shall be free from their objectionable features.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a knob tap valve having a continuous passage through the same to conduct the contents of the barrel to the discharge at the bottom of the knob; and my invention further consists in a quick-screw arranged on the stem of said knob tap-valve, which adapts the said valve to a valve-seat having a corresponding quick-screw in a portion of its interior surface to carry the valve quickly to and from its seat to open and close the same; and my invention further consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, as

will be hereinafter described, and poiptedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of the tap-valve and its seat in position in the barrel, in which figure the valve is closed, locked, and covered, the cover and lock-pin being shown in section. Fig. 2 shows some of the parts shown in Fig. 1, in which figure the valve is open, unlocked, and the cover removed. Fig. 3 is a plan of the tap-valve and cover, the cover being shown in section on line a 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan of val ve-seat proper, serrated parts, 850., and 5 is a detached view of the valve-seat.

B represents a knob tap-valve for beer and other barrels having a continuous open passage, f, through the same, through which passage the fluid passes from the barrel to the outlet 9, arranged therefor in the bottom of the knob portion of the valve. The stem portion of the valve is provided with a quick-screw, I), to accommodate a corresponding quickscrew, Z), arranged therefor in the outer portion of the interior of a valve seat or boX, A, in which seat or box the valve 13 resides. The quick-screws b I) are placed upon an angle sufficiently quick to carry the valve 13 from its closed position shown in Fig. 1, for retaining the contents of the barrel A outwardly to the position shown in Fig. 2, for discharging the same through the passage f and outlet 9 by a movement of the knob of the valve one-eighth of onerevolution backward, and to restore the same to its closed position by reversing the movement of the knob one-eighth of one revolution. The valve B, owing to the quickness of its movement to and from its seat h, hereinafter described, under the action of the quickscrcws F) b, to open the valve for discharging the fluid through the passage f and outlet 9 of the valve, as indicated by arrows, and for retaining the same by closing the valve, requires no eock or secondary means in. such action. The outlet 9 at the bottom of the knobportion of the valve 13 is so slightly moved sidewise in the action of opening and closing the valve that no inconvenience is experienced thereat, as the fluid can be caught in an ordinary glass, while no portion of the fluid can be retained in the knob-passage of the valve in consequence of such movement. The inner end d of the valve seat or box A, which is integral therewith, is provided with a series of serrated ports, 0, which ports are separated from each other bya bridge, /6. These serrated surfaces of the ports 0 tend to dividethe current of fluid and agitate the same while the fluid is passing from the barrel A through the said serrated ports 0 to the valve-passage f, where the fluid is further agitated by being forced by pressure from behindup into the upper knobportion of the valve-passage before reaching the outlet or point of discharge By this construction of the valve B and seat or box A partly-spent beer when on draft will be renewed by agitation, so as to leave the discharge g with a suitable head. \Vithin the circle formed by the serrated ports 6 is arranged a valve-seat, h, before referred to. This valveseat h, which constitutes the valve-seat proper for the action of the inner stem end of the knob-valve when forming its seat, is ,made of two or more layers of wood, with the grains of the different layers crossing each other, and which are fastened together by rivets h, the whole being secured in position to the inner side of the inner end of the seat or box A by screw j and washer j.

The seat It is made preferably of wood on account of its clean and durable qualities, and, being made of different layers of wood, with the wood-grains crossing each other and riveted together, will last for an indefinite period, and which is sufficiently yieldingto pressure, when fluid-soaked, for the valve to form a perfect seat thereon, while the crossing of the woodgrains will prevent the seatrfrorn splitting.

Between the seat It and quick-screw b in the valve seat or box A is arranged a valve 'seat, a, through which the valve-stem passes to the seat proper, 71 with the seat or box A, and which forms a seat around the valve-stem, is made to fit the valve-stem nicely to prevent the escape of the fiuidthrough the quick-screw when the valve is open.

The knob tap-valve B and its seat or box A, which are indispensably connected to retain the fluid in the barrel A and to discharge the same through the passage f and outlet 1, are protected by a cover, 0, when the barrel A is undergoing the various handlings in transit, &c. The said cover 0, which is secured in position over the valve B by screws Z to the bar relhead A, has arranged on its inner surface a lock-pin, m, that enters the outlet 9 and enfrom, as indicated.

The seat 0, which is integral gages the, upper wall of the same when the the screws Z'in the usual way, after which action the knob of the valve B is turned in a backward direction onc-eighthof one revolution, which action opens the valve and causes the contents of the barrel A to rush through the ports 6 into the passagef, and through the same to the outlet 9, and is discharged there The entire device may be made of any suitable materials or substance; if made of metal, brass or white-metal preferred. The taper to meet slight variations in the orifices of the barrels where the same is inserted, the screw-thread on the exterior of the valve box or seat A, and the flange for the action of the wrench on the outer end of the valve seat or box, are not a part of my invention, but are resorted to herein as one of the known means for securing the valve seat or box in position in barrels. Other of the known means may be resorted to, if desired.

The exterior of the knob portion of ther'valve B may undergo various changes of size and shape without changing in the least the nature of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The valve B and seat or box A, connected to retain the fluid in the barrel and to discharge the same through the passage f and outlet 1 without a cock or other'secondary means by a movement of the knob of said valve oneeighth of one revolution, a valve-seat, 72, composed of different layers of wood for the action of the valvestem, a seat, c,surrounding the valve-stem, a removable cover-all, 0, provided with a lock-pin, m,and aseries of serrated ports, 6, all arranged and operating substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN 'iNeLIs.

\Vitnesses:

FRED WARNER, THOMAS N. Coma. 

